Repubs blame(game) Dems for disunity, saying they should shut up

[BurtWorm]

and support der fuehrer. :eyes:

This is Republican welfare-queenism: They are absolutely incapable of doing a lick of work or making any sacrifice to bridge the divide between left and right. They're the party in power and they want US to bend over and just take it? Fuck 'em!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090601687_pf.html

For Bush, a Deepening Divide
Katrina Crisis Brings No Repeat of 9/11 Bipartisanship

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 7, 2005; A19



When terrorists struck on Sept. 11, 2001, Americans came together in grief and resolve, rallying behind President Bush in an extraordinary show of national unity. But when Hurricane Katrina hit last week, the opposite occurred, with Americans dividing along sharply partisan lines in their judgment of the president's and the federal government's response.

The starkly different verdicts on Bush's stewardship of the two biggest crises of his presidency underscore the deepening polarization of the electorate that has occurred on his watch. This gaping divide has left the president with no reservoir of good will among his political opponents at a critical moment of national need and has touched off a fresh debate about whether he could have done anything to prevent it.

To his critics, Bush is now reaping what he has sown. Their case against him goes as follows: Facing a divided nation, the president has eschewed unity in both his governing strategy and his political blueprint. These opponents argue that he has favored confrontation over conciliation with the Democrats while favoring a set of policies aimed at deepening support among his conservative base at the expense of ideas that might produce bipartisan consensus and broader approval among the voters. His allies and advisers, while acknowledging that polarization has worsened during the past five years, say the opposition party bears the brunt of responsibility. Democrats, by this reckoning, have rebuffed Bush's efforts at bipartisanship, put up a wall to ideas that once enjoyed some support on their side, and, even in the current crisis along the Gulf Coast, are seeking to score political points rather than joining hands with the president to speed the recovery and relief to the victims.

Wherever reality lies between these mutual recriminations, the path from post-9/11 unity to the rancor and finger-pointing in the aftermath of Katrina's fury charts a clear deterioration in political consensus in the United States and a growing willingness to interpret events through a partisan prism. It is a problem that now appears destined to follow Bush through the final years of his presidency -- a clear failure of his 2000 campaign promise to be a "uniter, not a divider."

[BeyondGeography]

1. We're just applying the Norquist rule

Bipartisanship IS date rape (when your companion is a conservative.)

[bee]

2. fuck em.

BLOWJOB KARMA

[txaslftist]

3. Ugh. That ain't it at all!

We blame him for taking money away from the levies.
We blame him for cutting the Army Corps of Engineers budget for studying ways to shore up New Orleans' defenses.
We blame him for appointing a political hack as FEMA chief.
We blame him for all of FEMA's collossal screw ups.

Is he divisive and confrontational and all that, sure.
But these mistakes are the ones that cost people their lives.

He can run from them and try to rationalize them and try to cover them up...

But the truth is out there. He screwed up and people died as a result.

[sweetheart]

4. apologists for a war criminal

What have they to say, the washington post is bought and spins propaganda
for its master. More of the same incompetence is good enough for them,
because they profit from incompetence, are negligent and partisan to it.

The concept of loyal opposition is alien to them, figuring rather, that
we are slaves under the control of some tyrannical dear leader.